I don’t believe in technique, I believe in performance. If you are tough, whether you have technique or not, you’ll survive.

Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket

Nothing is more thrilling than winning a match for your team.

If you know your game, you can handle pressure; you can handle any kind of situation, back yourself, and play your own game and get success.

If I see MS Dhoni coming to bat at number 4, I will be the happiest person on earth

As for my batting, the best part about it is I have never changed it. I have never changed my thinking, I have never changed my batting style.

When a person becomes satisfied, he doesn't run after things, doesn't worry about it, and doesn't make efforts.

Because I knew I had got success at Ranji level, I was confident I would get some success in international cricket too.

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Fifty percent of life is ninety percent indecisive. The rest is confusing.

People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

Now: heaven knows, anything goes.

I love different kinds of movies, and I love different kinds of people. That's the spice of life.

Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it.

All's fair if you have a really good attorney.

I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.

I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.